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# dresseth

«dresseth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **dresses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

dresses

### part of speech

verb, old form of «dresses» (he, she, it)

### meaning for a pupil

«dresseth» means «dresses», a form of «dress»: A piece of clothing that covers the body from the shoulders down to the legs, in one piece, often worn by girls and women. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dresseth/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he dresseth» = «he dresses».

### examples

- And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it. (Torah EXO.30.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dresseth/#x1)

### tests

ending -eth (stem «dress», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.895/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dresseth» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/dresseth/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.